This text responds to the situation of the field with regard to Artistic Research by drawing attention to the recent shift of discussions towards curating, and more specifically exhibition making, in terms of research practices. The intention is to reflect on the current transformation of contemporary exhibitionary practices and point to an understanding of exhibitionary formats as forms of critical inquiry and knowledge production. I ask how exhibition research might advance more general thinking about research as a way of addressing urgent questions, and what makes exhibition research a distinctive proposition? Thinking about curating in this way would seem not only to have the potential to facilitate non-regulated relations between human subjects but also demonstrates the potential for new epistemological and ontological insights into subject-object relations more broadly
